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Re: Can you customize built-in colors?
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lugnet.cad.mlcad
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Thu, 14 Feb 2002 01:45:22 GMT
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"Tony Hafner" <hafhead@PANTSplanetquake.com> wrote in message
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> I would like to modify the standard colors as displayed in MLCAD. This • way,
> I could make the black a little lighter and modify the line colors for
> certain colors. The purpose is to make instructions a little easier to • tell
> where one part ends and another begins. I don't want to use all custom
> colors in the models because that makes them a lot less portable. Does
> MLCAD have any way of supporting this?
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> --
> Tony Hafner
> www.hafhead.com
While I capture all of my models with ML-CAD but I render all of the images
I use for instruction books with LD-Lite. You have more control over line
widths and image size with LD-Lite and I think you will be happier with the
result. Granted, getting the images out of LD-Lite is no where as
straightforward as getting them out of ML-CAD but I think the results are
worth the efforts.
Here are some examples:
http://www.carolinatrainbuilders.com/instructions/index.htm
If you would like to see what a completed set of instructions (in Acrobat
format) looks like, go here:
http://www.carolinatrainbuilders.com/fmotm/index.htm
Mike
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Mike Walsh - mike_walsh at mindspring dot com
http://www.nclug.net - North Carolina LEGO Users Group
http://www.carolinatrainbuilders - Carolina Train Builders
http://www.bricklink.com/store.asp?u=mpw - Brick Depot
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| (...) Thanks- I'll look into it. I guess it's time to start comparing the rendering of all the editors out there. For my current problem, I ended up rendering with POV-Ray. I realized while doing so that substeps may actually be a little easier (...) (23 years ago, 16-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| I would like to modify the standard colors as displayed in MLCAD. This way, I could make the black a little lighter and modify the line colors for certain colors. The purpose is to make instructions a little easier to tell where one part ends and (...) (23 years ago, 14-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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